The remotely destructible chip is finally here. I feel sorry for the guinea pigs, though...

According to you, what is the worst thing that could happen to the C++ development, i.e. what nightmare would you never like to see happen to an upcoming standard?

...and the awaited fruit of "patented ideas", as that will naturally generate loads of infringements. Once again proven (and needless to say as it's clear as sunlight): an idea CAN'T and should NOT be able to be patented, especially when it comes to navel-gazing ones as "roundness of corners" and stuff. This is reluctant to progression and stops really great ideas to be reality. Even more heart-braking is that this is probably only the beginning...

...who thought "Ice Cream" was some short for Ice Cream Sandwich? With the second thought: "why would anyone need to simulate that in a supercomputer?"

A computer language is, as seen from a natural language perspective, constrained to its reserved keywords. A simple Google query shows that JavaScript has remarkably many - I can count it to be 184 (as seen in http://www.quackit.com/javascript/javascript_reserved_words.cfm). However, is it really necessary to understand the literal meaning of each keyword? Many of those keywords need a short description anyway to use them, and those descriptions alone could simply be written in any natural language of choice. Hence, changing the reserved keywords would only confuse any "English JavaScript" developers.

Same here. Anyone found a working link?

...unless services like Twitter stops you from using too long names, I presume?

..always knew they would come at last.

Touché! :-)

It is not troll. A spade is always a spade, whatever else you may want to call it.

Please respect this, once and for all, when posting stuff like this: "Hacking" is NOT "Cracking"! http://www.geek.com/forums/topic/hacking-and-cracking

So, Mozilla has kindly given the Open Source community yet another language to read about, learn, try out and (after some time) eventually master. And this just to handle a web browser? Sweet Moses.. What's the fuss all about? Can't Mozilla just give us the real favor and stick to a robust industry standard (C++) which has loads of talented and skilled contributors?

This campaign has been ongoing for days. Slashdot used to be quicker than this.

It's Google Python, Java/C# flavored. Time will tell if this language adds anything new and juicy to the market. As Stroustrup put it: "There are two types of programming languages: those that everyone's complaining about, and those which are never used".

I left my backpack, containing my laptop, on the train once. Sadly, I recalled the loss 20 seconds after the train left off. Though much search and a police report, it was never found. Does this belong to "theft" or more like "absentminded"?